Our first SpareAttire flea sale @ Home Club!

A big thank you to all who came down to show their support for Project SpareAttire's preloved clothing flea sale at the Home Club yesterday! Special thanks goes out to the few individuals who lent helping hands in preparing, setting up the stall and moving supplies there and back - you know who you are, we are so grateful for the last minute help rendered :)

The amount we collected through the sales did fall short of our target, although some sources say it is fairly decent for a 5-hour flea event. The good news is, we learnt some precious lessons from the experience, so we want to give it another shot by holding another flea sale soon!

In any case we still have LOADS of good stuff that have yet to be sold :) So look out for our future flea sales on this page!

Meanwhile here are a few pictures from the event yesterday (with more to follow):











SpareAttire Flea Sale TODAY! (3 to 8 pm)

The day has finally come! Do drop by Home Club anytime from 3 to 8 pm to visit our stall and pick out some great buys :)

Look out for our SpareAttire stall signage, and our blue logo:

See you soon!

SpareAttire Flea Sale ON TOMORROW!

The long awaited SpareAttire preloved clothing flea sale will take place tomorrow, 23rd April (Sat) from 3 to 8 pm at the Home Club! (more details under "Flea Sale")

Ladies, we have tops, skirts, pants and dresses all to go!! To give you all a sneak-peek, we looked through our clothing bags and here are a few of the lovely brands you can expect to find: Zara, British India, French Connection, South Haven, Song & Kelly, Club Marc, Esprit, Vera Wang, and alot more good stuff :)

So do pop by to show your support for SUN-DAC's Client Welfare Fund!

(Note: Only cash will be accepted)

Sale Proceeds go to SUN-DAC's Client Welfare Fund

As a Voluntary Welfare Organization, SUN-DAC Centre for the Disabled receives partial funding from private donors, MCYS and NCSS. However, there are certain aspects that do not receive government funding -- and this is where the Client Welfare Fund comes in.

In short, it helps to subsidise transportation costs and short term respite care home stays of needy clients, as well as outings/celebrations organised for them. (More details)

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To honour the good work that SUN-DAC has been doing, the SpareAttire Project 2011 wants to support their Client Welfare Fund through a 2nd clothing donation and sale.

Thanks to generous donors, we collected over 90 bags of 2nd hand clothes, which were mostly donated to SUN-DAC's Thift Store.

As for the nice & new pieces (mainly ladies clothes and some accessories), we will be selling them at FLEA.FLY.FLO.FUN Flea Market! The stall is kindly sponsored by organisers of the flea event :)

PROJECT SPAREATTIRE FLEA MARKET SALE!

Date: 23 April (Sat)

Time: 3 - 8pm

Venue: Home Club

20 Upper Circular Road #B1-01/06

The Riverwalk
(view map)

Do come down to support our sale and the many other stalls present at the flea event! See you there!

The time has finally come...

After a mad clothing collection spree in the earlier part of the year, it is now time to move on to Part 2 of the plan:

SpareAttire will be holding our first clothing sale at Flea.Fly.Flo.Fun's flea event on 23rd April, from 3 to 8 pm at the Home Club!

We will be selling selected items from amongst the donated clothes, primarily for females. Feel free to pop by to say hi, browse, and pick up some great buys :)

Do help to get the word out, we would love to see preloved clothes go to happy new owners and for SUN-DAC's clients to benefit greatly from our sales... All proceeds will go to SUN-DAC, so do give us your support!

Date:    23rd April (Saturday)

Time:    3 to 8 pm

Venue:  Home Club @ The Riverwalk

             20 Upper Circular Rd (view map)

The flea event organisers have kindly offered to sponsor our stall
to support our cause, kudos to them! For more info on Flea.Fly.Flo.Fun
and their flea events, do check out: http://fleaflyflofun.net/

One more week...

The bunny year has been bounding by very quickly - there has been a little hiatus in site updates these 2 weeks due to the CNY and some overseas travel.

But its now back to business, our donated clothes bags counter now stands at 71. We are counting down the final 8 days till the end of Feb, which is our collection deadline.

Currently we still have 3 pick-ups registered - we will be contacting you shortly! Anyone else who still has clothes to donate, please do let us know by this week to help us in planning for the final round of collection in the coming weekend. Thank you!!

Happy Bunny Year!

It is finally here! Happy Chinese New Year to all - wishing everyone a bright and bountiful year ahead! :)

Clothes Sorting (Part II)

One week after our 1st clothes sorting, the number of collected bags have more than doubled - thanks to all you supportive donors and the mounting cleaning frenzy as CNY approaches :)

We embarked on the 2nd round of sorting last Sunday - very much needed since we could no longer walk into the room which we used for storage, since the entire floor was covered with plastic/paper bags of all shapes and sizes. Almost 40 bags were sorted, repacked into red plastic bags and labelled. We were one person down from the previous time, so this time it took two of us about 4.5 hours from start to finish (including 2 short breaks: one to eat ah-balling and another to get my stiff back punched by my ever-energetic project partner).

It was satisfying to see the pile of clothes we plan to sell at the flea market growing, and we are actively looking out for suitable flea markets to sell them at. If anyone has any recommendations (or lobang), we would love to hear from you! (Email us at spare.attire@gmail.com)

Clothes Sorting (Part I)

The bag collection reached the sizeable number of 27 on Friday, so it was high time to get it out of the car (there was almost no more space left except in the driver's seat), and to conduct the first round of sorting.

The original bags were emptied piece by piece, those pieces in poor condition that did not make the cut were thrown away, and the rest were sorted. Here are some "before and after" photos:

BEFORE: Mass of bags

 AFTER: Mass of bags sorted by male/female/tops/bottoms

All done in 2 hours! (That was the easy part, the tough bit was moving the 27 bags from the car up to the sorting room ;) but that's another story)

Most of the sorted clothes will be going directly to the thrift store, while a small portion of clothes were sifted out from the pile to be sold later at a separate location - brand new/ high street/ designer wear (or those too cute to resist) that we expect to be able to sell at slightly higher prices.

Thank you for all the donations so far - do keep them coming!

It's gathering steam...

It's coming to a week, and the donation pace is clearly picking up (the weekend probably helped too) :)

This is indeed a learning journey on handling the logistics of such a project, but so far it has been working, thankfully, despite some minor hiccups. Good preparation for the next project we'd say!

A special note for donors who drop-off clothes at Sun-dac:
We would very much like to acknowledge you as donors, to update you on sale events and also the final outcome of the project. Do fill up the form at Sun-dac so we can have your contact (Name & Email/hp)! This of course is entirely optional, but we just want to find a way to say thank you.